In partnership with our strong Christian foundations and high-quality teaching and learning practice, Computing and Enterprise at Bradford Forster Academy encourages students to become: 

• Ambitious for themselves. 
• Academically successful. 
• Inquisitive and reflective learners. 
• Active and effective participants. 

• Confident communicators. 
• Emotionally resilient. 
• Inspiring to others. 
• Culturally and socially aware. 

Computing and Enterprise is sequenced to allow students to build their knowledge and skills over time by: 

• Introducing the soft and technical skills for business and personal finance, understanding the purpose of market research, promotion, planning and how methods of influencing are developed.  
• Applying three threads through the KS3 computing curriculum:  
• Computer Science (programming and understanding how digital systems work),  
• Information Technology (using computer systems to store, retrieve and send information)  
• Digital Literacy (evaluating digital content and using technology safely and respectfully). 
• Exposing students to complex problems that will need decomposition breaking the problems into manageable chunks. Abstracting these chunks to look for workable solutions, using project management and computing techniques of sequence, selection and iteration.  
• Developing confident oral and written communications using technical language and using various media for a wide range of purposes and audiences. 

Computing and Enterprise provides students with opportunities for them to develop the habits and skills needed to be successful in life during and after BFA by: 

• Empowering students to develop and wonder of the development of the world of innovation and technology looking at how it will change our lives, employment, and futures and how these technologies can be used to communicate tolerance, aspiration, faith, and belief in a positive manner.     
• Shaping the curriculum in line with the school vision which aims to enable all children, regardless of background, ability, or additional needs, to flourish to become the absolute best they can be. 
• Enabling learners to challenge themselves with new skills, concepts, and problems to grasp and overcome and in developing a self confidence that will be taken with them into the exciting and ever-changing world. 
• Providing enrichment activities and the opportunities to work with outside organisations and their technological experts to see the world beyond the classroom and the opportunities that Computing, and Enterprise can open.